Premise: After narrowly escaping death by dinosaur in Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm discovers billionaire John Hammond had a second island, where young dinosaurs were raised, that is soon to be pillaged by Hammond’s greedy nephew. Oh, and Malcolm’s girlfriend is already on the island.

Over two hours?: Yes

John Williams Score?: Yes

Father Issues?: Oh yeah. Ian Malcolm can’t get his daughter to listen to anything he tells her to do, including not going with him to a dinosaur-populated island

Fun Fact: Jon Favreau wanted the rights to use the theme music from Jaws in Swingers. When Spielberg attended a screening of the movie in order to decide to whether to grant them, he was so impressed with Vince Vaughn, he cast the actor as activist Nick Van Owen.

Verdict: The interesting premise quickly runs out of gas as the movie slowly reveals that it’s making it up as it goes along. Morphing from a rescue movie to a cruelty-of-man movie to a rampage movie to a teaming-up-with-your-enemies movie to whatever you want to call the 20-minute coda in San Diego, The Lost World: Jurassic Park feels aimless and cobbled together. Still, it has a few great action sequences, including the unbelievably tense scene with the trailer on the cliffside.